Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine claimed that Struk was killed by "unknown patriots", suggesting that locals were responsible for his abduction and assassination.

Sharogradsky met with representatives of the Russian Armed Forces and reportedly gave away names and addresses of local political activists, veterans of the Ukrainian army, suspected partisans and their families.

Two days later, a bomb exploded near the office of Russian-installed Zaporizhzhia Oblast governor Yevhen Balytskyi, a pro-Russian official and de facto mayor of Melitopol.

[35] On 11 August, Askyar Laishev, a former traffic police officer and the Russian-appointed Head of Intelligence of the Luhansk region, was killed when resistance fighters blew up his car in Starobilsk.

[49] On 3 September, Maksym Mahrynov, a local from Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region blew himself up in front of his home when the Russian military tried to arrest him for guiding Ukrainian artillery fire.

[61] On 12 December, Vitaly Bulyuk, First Deputy Head of the Kherson MCA for Economics, Financial and Budgetary Policy, Agriculture, Revenue and Fees, was injured in a car bombing in Skadovsk.

[95][96] On 29 July, two Russian officers were killed and 15 others hospitalized as the result of a mass poisoning carried out by Ukrainian partisans in the Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol in the Donetsk Region of Eastern Ukraine.

[99][100] On 30 August, Atesh partisans blew up the election hub of the United Russia party in Nova Kakhovka, a town located the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson Oblast.

[106] Later that day, a spokesperson of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine stated "a local resistance group" was behind the plot that targeted a car carrying four representatives of the Russian FSB and called the attack "an act of revenge".

There were similar reports in late August of unknown people hoisting the Ukrainian flag on top of the Shaan-Kaya mountain near Alupka, which is located 15 kilometers southwest from Yalta.

[118] On 5 December, 24 Russian servicemen were reportedly killed and 11 more hospitalized after members of a local partisan group handed out poisoned groceries and alcoholic beverages in Simferopol, Crimea.

Tsiferov was an employee of the Ministry of State Security of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which was involved in illegal abductions, acts of torture and other severe human rights violations since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.

[140] On 1 April, Valerii Chaika, a pro-Russian collaborator and former employee of the local district administration was killed in the town of Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, when a homemade explosive device blew up his car.

[144][145] On 5 May, a Russian collaborator and employee of a local penal colony was killed when an improvised explosive device blew up his car in occupied Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Southern Ukraine.

The Russian occupation authorities subsequently announced the start of a criminal investigation and stated that an unknown person planted the explosive charge on the underbody of the vehicle.

[147] On 21 May, the local pro-Ukrainian militant group ″Ї″ set fire to a warehouse in the port city of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, which was used by the Russian Armed Forces to store construction materials and other belongings.

[citation needed] On 2 June, a Russian serviceman posted a video in which he accused employees of a local shop in Ivanivka, Kherson Oblast of trying to poison him and his comrades with pills, which they tried to dissolve in Fanta soft drink bottles.

The alleged attack resulted in a large fire, which affected 4,172 square meters of terrain, and threatened to spread into a dry, forested area for a short period of time.

[161] On 25 August, pro-Russian Telegram channels reported that pro-Ukrainian militants managed to enter a makeshift barracks of the Russian military near Simferopol, where they stabbed 18 soldiers to death.

According to the guerillas, the railway connecting Rostov-on-Don and the Russian-occupied cities of Mariupol and Berdiansk is of high strategic value, since it would serve as the main supply line for all Russian troops in Southern Ukraine in case of the destruction of the Crimean bridge.

A similar incident happened a day earlier, when guerillas from the same group entered a field depot belonging to the 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in the Starobesheve Raion, Donetsk Oblast.

[165][166] On 1 October, Ukrainian partisans targeted a Lada 110 motor vehicle in a car bombing, which was reportedly carrying three Russian servicemen in the occupied city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

It was also noted that the KPA instructors can operate in relative safety, since a significant share of the remaining residents in the municipality - which is home to a large ethnic Russian minority - were holding pro-Russian views and supported the occupation authorities.

[171][172] On 18 October, Dmitry Pervukha, a major of the Russian Armed Forces, was reportedly killed by an explosive while driving his car in the city center of Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine.

[182] On 26 November, partisans belonging to the Atesh movement sabotaged another railway line by destroying a relay cabinet near Novooleksiivka, a town on the administrative border between the Kherson Oblast and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

[183] On 27 November, Atesh militants published an online post, in which they called on the Ukrainian military to target a concentration of Russian S-400 air defense systems near the settlement of Molochne in the Saky raion, Crimea.

[184] On 29 November, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a successful missile strike in the area, which according to initial reports, targeted a Russian air defense system of the same type.

[189] On 27 December, unknown assailants reportedly set fire to a car belonging to a high-ranking Russian military officer in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Southern Ukraine.

[190] On 7 January, Atesh partisans uncovered a command post of the Russian military on the premises of a sanatorium resort near the Crimean beach town of Fedorivka in the Saky district.

[192] On 29 January, Atesh militants announced that they mapped out the locations of multiple Russian warehouses on the territory of the occupied Crimean peninsula by tracking the movement of large fuel shipments.